Invisible Women of Prehistory: Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War by Marlene Derlet, Judy FosterEnglish | 2013 | ISBN: 1876756918 | 424 pages | EPUB | 9,5 MB

Based on many years of research into ancient history and prehistory, this insightful tome argues that three million years of peace-a period when women's status in society was much higher than it is now-preceded the last 6,000 years of war during which men have come to hold power over women. The book challenges the idea accepted in academia that history is a linear development in which society is steadily moving out of a violent and patriarchal past to a more equitable and peaceful future, and it reexamines both the archaeological work of Marjia Gimbutas and recent research into the prehistories of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Australia and Oceania.